World History
What engages students? This is the question a California teacher asked 220 8th graders. They came up with 10 categories from working with technology to project-based lessons to connecting lessons to the real world. You can read the story at Edutopia.
- My Post For Digital Learning Day
Tomorrow the Alliance for Excellent Education, that started Digital Learning Day, is posting my thoughts on Digital Learning Day which I am also posting below. Last year in my Digital Learning Day post for the Alliance for Excellent Education I...
- My View On The Future Of Education
Last week the Alliance for Excellent Education (which is the inspiration behind Digital Learning Day) asked me to write a blog post for them. If you care to read the entire post go here where I have a number of links to items my students have done...
- Reading Like A Historian: Stanford University
You gotta love Stanford University. Their education group has created a site called "Reading like a Historian." They created lessons for world history, each of which revolves around a central question, and uses primary documents to analyze the question....
- Why The Question Is More Important For The Student
The authors of Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions, think Socrates was all wrong. Instead of using questions to get kids to think more deeply, Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana, the authors and co-directors of The Right Question...
- David Thonburg On The Evolving Classroom
Here is another interesting clip about the use of technology and inquiry based learning from futurist and author David Thornburg. Edutopia has a story about Dr. Thronburg here. Add this video to the one Ken posted about gaming your class and the one...
World History
Kids Speak out on Student Engagement
- My Post For Digital Learning Day
Tomorrow the Alliance for Excellent Education, that started Digital Learning Day, is posting my thoughts on Digital Learning Day which I am also posting below. Last year in my Digital Learning Day post for the Alliance for Excellent Education I...
- My View On The Future Of Education
Last week the Alliance for Excellent Education (which is the inspiration behind Digital Learning Day) asked me to write a blog post for them. If you care to read the entire post go here where I have a number of links to items my students have done...
- Reading Like A Historian: Stanford University
You gotta love Stanford University. Their education group has created a site called "Reading like a Historian." They created lessons for world history, each of which revolves around a central question, and uses primary documents to analyze the question....
- Why The Question Is More Important For The Student
The authors of Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions, think Socrates was all wrong. Instead of using questions to get kids to think more deeply, Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana, the authors and co-directors of The Right Question...
- David Thonburg On The Evolving Classroom
Here is another interesting clip about the use of technology and inquiry based learning from futurist and author David Thornburg. Edutopia has a story about Dr. Thronburg here. Add this video to the one Ken posted about gaming your class and the one...